Re: Spontaneous PITR standby activiation

On 26 November 2009 07:26, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> David Christensen wrote:
>> 1) is there a hard limit of the number of times the archive_command will
>> attempt?  I didn't see anything documented about this in the PITR or
>> config docs, so I'm guessing the 10 failures I saw in the log were just
>> coincidental.
>
> There's no limit. It will try forever.
>
>> 2) are the archive_command failures in the master's log responsible for
>> the redo records?
>
> No, archive_command failures shouldn't affect the standby.
>
>> 3) would a Pg forced shutdown cause issues with the generated WAL when
>> replaying?
>
> No.
>
>> 4) at first I thought it had to do with a bug/failure in pg_standby, but
>> I'm wondering if it has to do with the "record with zero length"
>> referenced in the standby's logs.  Thoughts?
>
> That basically means that WAL replay reached end of WAL. The rest of the
> WAL file is probably full of zeros. It's quite normal in crash recovery,
> for example. But I have no explanation for why such a WAL file was archived.

Were any conclusions made out of this during any discussion, or bug
fixes made as a result?

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